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Riven

Original title: Riven - June 25, 2024
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Director:Eric Anderson
Studio:Cyan Worlds
Stars:John Keston, Rand Miller, Ronan Farrow - Full View
Soundtrack:Robyn Miller returned to score the remake, both remastering his 1997 music and writing new material — Cyan announced it in April 2024 as music that would 'bolster the already iconic soundtrack of the game with brand-new music'. His stated intent: 'I attempted to evoke the sounds of the original soundtrack but I was writing for an environment that is unique and stands apart from the original Riven.' The first new piece revealed was 'Into the Unknown, Part IV', Riven (Original Game Soundtrack) [Remastered 2024] — released 12 July 2024, 31 tracks: the remastered 1997 score plus four further pieces from the original game and seven new compositions written for the remake. The Bandcamp edition includes a high-resolution scan of the first rough hand-drawn map of the Riven islands, A 2×LP vinyl edition followed on Fangamer (cat. FG41, 21 April 2026): blue-green marbled, 30 tracks across four sides, gatefold with obi, including a scaled-down reproduction of the 1994 first design map. Mastered at Telegraph Mastering, pressed by Cascade Record Pressing
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D.I.C.E. Awards
Game
28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
Nominee
2025
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Game Details
Developer
Cyan Worlds
Publisher
Cyan Worlds
Studio
Cyan Worlds
Genres
Adventure, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, SteamVR, PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 2
Release Date
June 25, 2024
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
86
Game Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Story

The 1997 Riven: The Sequel to Myst remade from the ground up. The remake features a fully traversable 3D space in both Standard First-Person or in VR.

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Crew & Contributors 4
Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson
Direction • Game Director
Hannah Gamiel
Hannah Gamiel
Direction • Game Director
Rand Miller
Rand Miller
Direction • Game Director
Richard Wende
Richard Wende
Direction • Game Director

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Awards1
D.I.C.E. Awards
Game
28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
Nominee
2025
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Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Wikipedia, Metacritic
Last updated: 03.08.2026
Business
Budget
Not disclosed
Revenue
Not disclosed

Cyan self-published the remake and has never disclosed sales figures or revenue — no unit number, no milestone announcement could be found across Cyan's own press releases, Game Informer, Time Extension, UploadVR or Wikipedia. What is on the record: the game launched at $34.99 on PC, Mac and Meta Quest (10% launch discount on PC/Mac, 11% Quest pre-order discount) and discounts regularly since. Steam's all-time peak was 1,659 concurrent players in June 2024. Third-party modelled estimates put owners in the 100,000-200,000 band, but those are inferred and are not a basis for a revenue figure. Critically it did well — Metacritic 86, OpenCritic 87%. Context worth keeping separate from the game's performance: Cyan laid off twelve staff, roughly half the team, in March 2025 while seeking financing for its next project, with a further round in July 2025; neither announcement attributes the cuts to Riven, so no causal link should be drawn.

Time to Beat
Main + Extras11h
Completionist6h
Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
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German
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Portuguese (Brazil)
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Korean
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Chinese (Simplified)
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Italian
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French
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Polish
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Japanese
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Russian
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Content Rating
Mild Violence
Mild Language
ESRB E10+
System Requirements
Minimum
Requires a 64:bit processor and operating system. OS: Windows 10 or 11. Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.7GHz; Intel i5 7000 series. Memory: 16 GB RAM. Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700XT; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB; at least 6GB VRAM. DirectX: Version 12. Storage: 30 GB available space. VR Support: Quest 2 over Airlink or Link cable, HTC Vive Pro, Valve Index. Note: laptops with a 3050 or 3050 Ti GPU do not meet requirements.
Available On
PlayStation Store
Steam$34.99US
GOG
GOG$34.99US
Official Website
Humble Store$34.99US
Microsoft Store$34.99US
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Data aggregated from 4 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Wikipedia, Metacritic
Last updated: 03.08.2026